Official 2016-2017 NBA Season Thread - NBA rules Chris Bosh has a career ending injury

DCAllAfrican · Dec 30, 2016

Dennis Smith Jr is playing like he's already in the NBA. https://t.co/Rclh1ORoal

pmatic · Dec 30, 2016

T0INE · Dec 30, 2016

STARBOY said:
Freeze said:

curry was so damn good the last 2 years. especially the championship year. He was nasty last year too. I know in the playoffs he wasnt 100%, but what happened to him?

Do you think its really adjusting to KD? Or as his star grew his obligations off the court have grown and he's been unable to practice like he used to? It just seems like everything is off about bro. He's one of my favorite players so I feel bad that he's been less than stellar. Plus he'll need to be sick af again to beat bron.

so where do you think the problem lies?

He did say yesterday he wants the team to run more pnr's. That was his bread and butter the last 2 yrs. Bogut was an immovable force on that screen. All of his shooting, outside of FT's is down.

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The only thing that's happened is people acting like the sky has fallen after their whopping total of 5 losses.

He's averaging 24, 5, and 4. He's having his worst 3 point season shooting ever...which is still higher than league average

Saying he's less than stellar is comparing him to himself at his highest.

That's like looking at Lebron's numbers and saying..."he's not averaging 30, 7, and 7 anymore. What happened?"

Nope.

Lebby and Steph both washed. /NTer.

T0INE · Dec 30, 2016

PMatic said:
Yikes.

Yikes indeed.

Really thought the Pacers would be challenging for 2nd in the East with Toronto and Boston.

DCAllAfrican · Dec 30, 2016

Thoughts?

The Timberwolves' Ricky Rubio Problem - YouTube

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suberzat1 · Dec 30, 2016

DCAllAmerican said:
Thoughts?

The Timberwolves' Ricky Rubio Problem - YouTube

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Seerat can get it.

antidope · Dec 30, 2016

Rubio is still the best option. Not much can be done about this.

DCAllAfrican · Dec 30, 2016

KG

Quincy McCall · Dec 30, 2016

Godffrey byke

Peep Game · Dec 30, 2016

a-friend said:
Can we talk about why Thomas Robinson can't land a good role on a good or bad team.

The guy does it all, and well, pretty effortlessly.

He needs 27mpg somewhere man, for real.

I thought he was doing well in Portland, but guess they thought otherwise

Vincent Van Goat · Dec 30, 2016

DCAllAmerican said:
Dennis Smith Jr is playing like he's already in the NBA. https://t.co/Rclh1ORoal

I like smiths violence. Hopefully he can be develop a little bit more fluidity in his handle, he can become one of NTs favorites steve Francis

JD617 · Dec 30, 2016

The Bulls: who we thought they were?

Welp. I guess this is the danger in writing about Chicago's surprisingly potent offense after five games, or announcing in the first week of November that Dwight Howard has transformed the Hawks.

After a hot start, Chicago looks exactly like the punchless, clogged-up outfit most of us expected when they cornered the market on bad 3-point shooters. The Bulls are down to 17th in points per possession, and over the last month, they're tied in the basement with the Lakers, per NBA.com. They're dead stinking last, by a mile, in both 3-point attempts and shooting accuracy from deep. Their point guard situation is a disaster.

Every possession is a grind. More of their attempts have come in the last seven seconds of the shot clock over the last month, per NBA.com. Nikola Mirotic only just eked over the Antoine Walker Line (30 percent) from deep. Getting Doug McDermott back helps, but Chicago has had trouble springing him for open looks. They are subsisting on free throws, offensive rebounds, and Jimmy Butler's relentless brilliance.

You can score enough to win without 3-point shooting. The Bulls have proven that, and they have the toughness and collective smarts to hang around .500. But it's hard to win much more than that when you're starting games at a deficit.

Jokegeta · Dec 30, 2016

Freeze said:
too bad kev is damn near unplayable against golden state.

yet he scored 20 last game.

but I see what your saying, because the cavs beat GS by 30 without K. Love in the nba finals in game 3.

jumpman91023 · Dec 30, 2016

Vincent Van Ho said:
I like smiths violence. Hopefully he can be develop a little bit more fluidity in his handle, he can become one of NTs favorites steve Francis

I hope the 910 native doesnt end up in philly

JD617 · Dec 30, 2016

The stagnation of Wesley Johnson

Yeah, it's not happening. Doc Rivers entered camp last season hoping Johnson would win a starting job, and emerge as the rangy 3-and-D wing L.A. has needed forever. Lance Stephenson, Paul Pierce and finally Luc Richard Mbah a Moute all ended up beating him out.

Things are even worse this season. Johnson is shooting 25 percent on mostly wide-open 3s, and just 5-of-30 (!) on 3s outside the corners. He looks like the one nonessential piece of the five-man bench mob that torched opponents in the first month of the season. He's long enough to guard most power forwards, but he's a blah defender overall, and he brings nothing on offense. He's the fifth wheel amid three hoggy dribblers and one gleeful gunner in Marreese Speights. If Johnson isn't hitting shots, it's unclear what he does.

jumpman91023 · Dec 30, 2016

toine2983 said:
Yikes indeed.

Really thought the Pacers would be challenging for 2nd in the East with Toronto and Boston.

The pacers defense has to be atrocious when Big Al is in the game.

I haven't watched many of their games but just by glancing at the roster, they do have a lot of guys who play with a score first mentality.

bhzmafia14 · Dec 30, 2016

This mane hit 6 3's in the 4th alone and scored all 22 in garbage time :lol

pullin up deep

If only he could get his defense together

awwsome · Dec 30, 2016

PG13 leaving Indy or is he incentivized to stay because of the new CBA?

Benny Hinn · Dec 30, 2016

PG, Boogie, and Wall need to make their own super team already.

All have had it.

P C H · Dec 30, 2016

awwsome said:
PG13 leaving Indy or is he incentivized to stay because of the new CBA?

Sign and trade?

HIM · Dec 30, 2016

JD617 said:
The stagnation of Wesley Johnson

Yeah, it's not happening. Doc Rivers entered camp last season hoping Johnson would win a starting job, and emerge as the rangy 3-and-D wing L.A. has needed forever. Lance Stephenson, Paul Pierce and finally Luc Richard Mbah a Moute all ended up beating him out.

Things are even worse this season. Johnson is shooting 25 percent on mostly wide-open 3s, and just 5-of-30 (!) on 3s outside the corners. He looks like the one nonessential piece of the five-man bench mob that torched opponents in the first month of the season. He's long enough to guard most power forwards, but he's a blah defender overall, and he brings nothing on offense. He's the fifth wheel amid three hoggy dribblers and one gleeful gunner in Marreese Speights. If Johnson isn't hitting shots, it's unclear what he does.

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Doc's dumb *** never gave him a real shot this season

Paul Pierce might be the worst player in the NBA but he still gets starts when Blake is out. Wes is getting 13 minutes, if he plays at all :lol

Free the elite corner three shooter.

datznasty · Dec 30, 2016

Bennyhinn said:
PG, Boogie, and Wall need to make their own super team already.

All have had it.

Westbrook and AD also, in fact PG probably joins this team because of the Cali connection. Trash markets, trash surrounding players, how much difference is 20 million really when you make more money than you could ever spend or dream of?

P C H · Dec 30, 2016

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P C H · Dec 30, 2016

DatZNasty said:
Westbrook and AD also, in fact PG probably joins this team because of the Cali connection. Trash markets, trash surrounding players, how much difference is 20 million really when you make more money than you could ever spend or dream of?

It would be more than 20Ms that they would be turning down no?